How Does Total Access Emailer Compare to Basic SMTP Email Programs?

Designed for Microsoft Access

The most fundamental difference is that Total Access Emailer is designed for Microsoft Access. It runs as a Microsoft Access add-in (without the need to write VBA) and also offers a VBA library that you can use for automation.

Use a list of email addresses from your tables and queries including linked tables.

Create personalized emails by inserting values from the fields in the table into your email messages (just refer to them like an Access expression [FirstName], [LastName], etc.)

Use SMTP to send the messages which is much more reliable than Outlook and eliminates the MAPI security problems, Outlook versions and whether it's currently running or not

Attach files such as reports formatted as PDF files or data as Excel spreadsheets.

Filter data and reports to specific recipients so each person gets their unique information.

Compress (zip) attached files and even password protect it with a unique password for each person (based on a field in your table).

Ability to use HTML template files for email messages and automatically embed graphic files from that folder in the HTML message

Use an interactive Wizard interface to easily create email blast specifications which are saved so they can be run again over time

No Programming Required

For programs not designed for Microsoft Access, a lot of programming is usually required to integrate it with your MS Access database. Some may be basic VBA code, but often it requires using Windows API calls and declare statements. The time it takes to do this can far exceed the price of Total Access Emailer.

Total Access Emailer eliminates that complexity by letting you create basic and advanced email blasts without any programming at all. For developers, the VBA automation lets you launch a blast from code, and because all the email blast settings are stored in a few tables inside your database, you can edit them outside our Wizard, if necessary.

Royalty-Free Runtime Distribution License

The professional version of Total Access Emailer includes a royalty-free runtime distribution license, so you can distribute your Access application with the email features to an unlimited number of your users. You can even customize or hide our status screens so your users don't need to know Total Access Emailer is running in the background.